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From: Sara Winge
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Subject: O'Reilly's Open Source Developer Day Advances these
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 26, 1998
CONTACT: Sara Winge, 707/829-0515 x285, sara@oreilly.com
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O'REILLY'S OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPER DAY PROMOTES ACCEPTANCE OF
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Corporate Adopters Share Open Source Success Stories
SEBASTOPOL, CA--The mainstreaming of open source software accelerated
on Friday, August 21, when over 300 people attended O'Reilly &
Associates' Open Source Developer Day and Town Meeting in San Jose, CA.
Attendees heard Yahoo co-founder David Filo say that his company
couldn't have built the world's largest web site without FreeBSD,
Apache, and Perl--all open source software. IBM's James Barry told the
audience how IBM came to realize that Apache was the best choice for
the web server at the heart of the WebSphere Application Server. And
Jim Hamerly of Netscape explained how his company developed licenses
for its Communicator product that both promote open source development
and protect corporate interests.
Open Source Developer Day had a practical focus. Eric Raymond, author
of the influential paper "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," kicked off the
program with a keynote that chronicled the rapid growth of the open
source movement in the past year. His talk was followed by panel
presentations on managing distributed open source projects, open source
business models, and licensing and legal issues. Panelists were open
source pioneers and innovators, including Richard Stallman, founder of
the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation; Larry Wall, creator
of Perl; Brian Behlendorf, a founder of the Apache group and Vice
President of Web Applications, C2Net Software; John Ousterhout, CEO,
Scriptics Corp. and creator of the Tcl scripting language; Michael
Tiemann, Co-founder, Cygnus Solutions; Bob Young, President, Red Hat
Software; and Pamela Samuelson, Professor at the University of
California at Berkeley and Co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law
and Technology.
At the end of the day, another 100 people joined the crowd for the Open
Source Town Meeting, which was moderated by Tim O'Reilly, President and
CEO of O'Reilly & Associates. Attendees' questions flushed out the
philosophical differences between panelists and provoked a spirited
discussion on the pros and cons of commercializing open source
software. Scriptics Corp. CEO John Ousterhout elicited strong support
when he made a case for the value of bringing business knowledge-and
funding-to open source development efforts. At the other end of the
spectrum, Richard Stallman, founding father of the free software
movement, reiterated his long-held belief that all users should have
the freedom to copy and change any software they use.
Twenty-eight businesses and organizations that have a stake in the
continued development of open source software signed on as Partners in
Open Source Developer Day. Representatives staffed tables at the event,
providing information and demonstrations to attendees. Partners were:
AbiSource
Apache Group
C2Net
Corel Computer
Cyclades Corporation
Cygnus Solutions
FreeBSD
Free Software Foundation
Linux International
Linux Journal
NetBSD Project
Netscape
Penguin Computing
Perl Journal
Red Hat Software
The Samba Team
Scriptics Corporation (Tcl)
Sendmail, Inc.
SGI
Silicon Valley Linux User Group/LINC
Songline Studios
Summit Software
SuSE
USENIX
VA Research
Walnut Creek CD-ROM
Whistle Communications
Xemacs Project
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